Subject: Top CEO's plan to loot US social programs byMargaret Flowers
Hi Bob and All Who Dream of Better Times.
You wrote, "the real problems here are in the form of corporate welfare to big business..."
Actually, I see that as an outcome of the real problem.
The real problem is that "We the People" have no government. "They, the Corporate First Class Citizens, and Their Lackeys" have an Empire.
And just as we used to believe that we had a government that stood for Liberty and Justice for All, their Empire's bottom line is, Maximize Expansion and Profit.
To the Ruling Class, the Empire's People, the rest of us are like flies buzzing around their honey pot. We are a nuisance. At the moment they merely brush us away. But as we persist in trying to grab a taste of that yummy honey, they will bring out the fly swatter.
Our mistake is two-fold.
First, we believe that we can pressure the Empire into sharing. Please go back and re-read their bottom line.
Second, we believe that they see us as people with the ability to contribute to the well-being of the nation.
What they see is a natural resource. We will mine their coal, farm their gardens, clean their mansions, and in effect we will provide all that they need doing in order to live their lives and free their time to the task of maximizing expansion and profit.
Their actions over the life of this nation declare that they believe themselves to be the Chosen Ones, the Wise Ones, the Leaders, the Doers and Shakers. Their history books are not filled with our achievements. They revel in the great accomplishments of their People. And we are taught to believe that these are the great people in our history. Well my friends, the truly great People in our history are, Us. They are our fathers and mothers, and our great great great grand parents. The toilers of the soil, the builders of houses, the construction gangs, the house wives, the cop on the corner, the fireman putting his life on the line, the homeless person building a shanty out of packing crates, the children surviving in squalor and the filth and danger in the Ghettos and slums, the young men and women sacrificed daily to defend the Empire's ill gotten gains, the elderly folk caste aside and waiting to quietly die. These are our heroes. But try to find them in your school's history books. Oh, you may see them listed as, the King's troops, or perhaps, the industrialist called upon the governor to send out the National Guard to put down the rioters, protesters and mischief makers.
But only a very few of our common heroes ever grace the pages of the Ruling Class' history books.
Although millions of pages have been written, and hundreds of wise Talking Heads have pontificated, the solution is a simple one.
Either we go along as we are and hope for enough crumbs from the Master's Heavily Laden Table, or we rise up and establish a new, People's Government.
And I'm sorry to say, but that does mean a blood bath. Look at it from their point of view. What would you do if the flies suddenly swarmed into your honey pot and began sucking it dry? Of course you'd reach for the really big fly swatter.
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: Re: [acb-chat] Top CEO's plan to loot US social programs byMargaret Flowers
Hi Claude and all,
Margaret Flowers has it right here.
The greed of members of the business round table is most depressing. While
our debt is not a good thing and does need to be reduced in the long run,
the most important thing we need to do now is to get our economy growing
again and create more jobs that pay a living wage. The bitter pill of
austerity if inflicted upon America right now will stall the very slow
growth we have now and further divide us into the haves and have-nots. WE
need to return to Keynesian economics which creates a much more vibrant
middle class and levels the playing field for most of us. there's nothing
wrong with being rich, but there's quite a bit wrong with being very very
rich such as the unbelievable levels of wealth held by the top one half of
one percent of Americans. Right-wingers continually whine about what they
call entitlements such as social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps,
SSI, college grants and defined pension plans. The entitlements that cause
the real problems here are in the form of corporate welfare to big business
regardless of profit levels which sap revenue from our government and cause
our infrastructure to be the laughing stock of the rest of the developed
world. The entitlement that bugs me the most is the one whereby former
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle quickly transform from reps
and senators to lobbyists and consultants who bring in big bucks in cushy
jobs as they use insider knowledge gained while in Congress to the benefit
of themselves and their employers often at the expense of the rest of us.
We need to charge the FICA tax to all income, not just that below
$106,000.00. WE also need to ban health insurance companies as Margaret
suggests.
Failure to take her advice will lead to one of two outcomes neither of which
is pleasant.
1. More and more Americans will lose hope and get sick and tired of being
pushed around by big business and we could get a bloody revolution.
2. The attempt at bloody revolution could be put down by the corporatists
and the military leading to a fascist authoritarian state.
Bob Hachey
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